The point of a blog is to actually post to it from time to time, or at least regularly, which is something that I definitely suck at without a doubt at all. I think the biggest reason for this is because I have so little time because of what I am trying to do with life in general to get ahead and all. I have this site and two others, this one of course is dedicated to writing I want to do, then I have one that is dedicated to my art and selling what I am creating there and lastly I have a site that is dedicated to my personal training business, and I suck at taking care of all of them.
The problem comes back to not wanting to have all my eggs in one basket, but all that takes time which I really don’t seem to have because I also have a full-time job which cuts into that. So I have to either start to make more of an effort in getting things on each of these sites at least weekly while trying to actually write the first novel I want to write and while attracting people to coach to get themselves in shape faster than they would on there own. The art thing isn’t an issue, I have been working on paintings regularly, I have one on my easel now that is nearly done and then will start another shortly after that. The thing with the art I have to do more of is to bring my drawing skills back which requires set aside time to practice along with learning more about abstract painting to continue to develop my voice in that and to improve my abilities to paint since that is a totally new thing for me.
Beyond all that this happened recently
I celebrated 15 years clean and sober, not an easy thing to do these days when so much emphasis in this world is put on drinking. I have to say the one thing I can tell everyone reading this part, once you get sober the one thing that is different for everyone is when you get your feels back, I drank to not feel anything, and I wiped out my ability to feel at all, I am happy to say that some 15 years later I am starting to get that back. Yes it has taken that long and it will continue to take longer I am sure, it is a scary thing to feel when you haven’t for so long!
On the fitness front, I had every intention of competing in my first competition this year in October but I definitely mislead myself in how much extra effort goes into dropping body fat at my current age (55), we will just say that dropping body fat is much harder now than it has ever been and likely even more so because I am coming from being at one point much heavier than I am currently. Granted I wasn’t what I would consider super fat because even at my heaviest I was nearer to 20% body fat which isn’t so bad, but in my goal to drop weight to preserve the use of my real knees which are destroyed from years of powerlifting training I have sacrificed mostly muscle vs body fat itself in that loss. I am now figuring to get myself in the shape I need to be to compete I am going to have to get to around 180 – 185lbs and I am still sitting at around 207. So I have a ways to go in getting to a point where I am going to look good enough to be competitive which is what I want if I am going to do this.
Lastly, on the writing side of things I have decided I am going to focus on doing a horror novel, horror has always been my favorite so that is what I am going to be working towards, and right now I am hashing out the different ideas I have to decide which one I want to run with first, I have several so want to flesh them out to see which one will be best to run with first.
OK, that is it for now, I am going to try and do my best to get some sort of update posted at least once per week going forward for sure.
Later iWrite4Me
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